Michael Sperber wrote:
>you've removed this and replaced it with something that is
rather
>more opaque; it will not be obvious to the average user which of the
>above options is correct. (presumably --with-late-packages?)
>    
>
This can (and probably should be) easily fixed by giving this (and
possibly --with-early-packages, too) more intuitive aliases.  I'm open
to suggestions.  ("--with-packages" + "--with-user-packages", maybe?)
  
 
this sounds like a good start.  we should probably do the same for 
"-with-last-packages"; can you explain what this is supposed to be used for?
However, "--with-package-prefix" doesn't cut it because
it's
inconsistent with the terminology of the rest of the system, and
because a "prefix" can mean any of at least 3 things in the context of
the system.
  
 
ok.